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Originally Posted by snappit
This has caused a lot of outrage over here in Europe. 60 days is absolutely nothing especially as we are approaching the end of the flat season. It was clearly a deliberate act which could easily have resulted in serious injury or worse. The shame is Soumillon is actually a really good rider and has no need to do this sort of thing.
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Agreed about Soumillon. Is there any kind of history of rough stuff with him? Any sense from any of the journalists over there as to what inspired it? There's no excuse for the behavior, but it sure seems a weird "out of the blue" occurrence.
French rules may be changing soon - they're all upset that they can't suspend immediately and then there was this on top of it:
Such was the severity of Soumillon's actions, the owners of Malavath have revealed they do not want him to partner their filly in Sunday's Group 1 Prix de la Foret, yet the French rules do not permit them to replace a jockey who is permitted to ride.
https://www.racingpost.com/news/arc-...ngchamp/581674
